What will people say? Shame conjures up alot of emotions in people. Anything that does not work in life can lead one to feel ashamed. So why does it make people feel diminished?. The Lord reveals that its the flesh!.
For sometime now, I kept thinking about Berthsheba and her relationship with King David, what her relationship must have been like after she was lured to King David’s chamber, raped,got pregnant her husband and the baby died. She had a second son King Solomon. Spoken of well widow of Uriah whom she was thought to have indirectly plotted the murder of with King David to conceal her sin.
Lets face it, those were very traumatic experiences, however we never hear of Berthsheba’s life much after these trauma’s. Berthsheba was also the mother of King Solomon. Therefore a prominent women in her times. Could her position have led her to hide her ordeal. To protect King David's reputation. Ignore her own emotions?.
A brief look at her life that is available to us tells us little of how a woman in her predicament will have dealt with pain in her times.* Did she get any counselling if there was n informal way of counselling how did she deal with her pain?. Well we might never know.
However, I sense that Berthsheba like any woman simply did nothing. Like many women, not much time is taken to gain inner healing. That Berthsheba told David t find a way of hiding her sin meant there was no way she felt accepted. She was shamed if anything and the instruction to David was just a way of cover from shame.
Dear women,
This same thing is happening today, Berthesba hid in shame, and many women today are following her footsteps. You see shame hinders healing. (I have a short video on this). We will never know what went through Berthsheba’s mind in that marriage unplanned and forced marriage with David. A woman going though her kind of trauma would be able to tell a story of her pain. Some have gone as far as asking if Bersheba was an adultress. How does a woman lured to a mans bedroom become an adultress. The judgement is harsh, David it is known paid the price but the upholding of David is far greater than the blame. We still see this today. You see, much blame is still very much apportioned on women then and even today when rape, separation, divorce or adultery occurs,
It is such a deep blame that this scripture say’s, - Deuteronomy 22 verses 23 to 24 - ”If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death—the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man’s wife". You must purge the evil from among you.
Okay, Berthsheba was not married and not virgin and did not scream for help does not make her an adultress!. Berthsheba’s apparent silence may have began an unwitting conditioning in women to keep silent about their inner emotions with little or no support and act like everything is well.
On the other hand, Tamar (2 Samuel 13:1-22) spoke out and fought back against his step brother Amnon who tried to rape her and her full brother Absalom tried to silence her. We see silence running deep here. All actions being taken due to shame. Shame is fleshly and we can see shame is conditioned and still rife in society today.
You see, the judgement of man is truly harsh but we are told, Matthew 7:1“Do not judge so that you will not be judged”. No judgement from men is worth paying attention to than the consequences of covering shame which.
Today, led by the spirit ”I speak and pray over any woman who may be fearing judgement and condemnation that you shall not continue to live in silence over fear of judgement and shame. Release your trauma and speak out in Jesus name. This spirit is parading around trying to keep people in bondage. When its recognised it, it must be fought to release God's people. God word is already clear!. There is nothing Jesus himself never experienced and does not understand.
Dont let the burden of shame arising from what has happened to you intimidate you dear woman arise from the spirit of shame.
Romans 8:1 "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit"
Thank you for taking time to read.
Blessed Jackqueline
Blessings to you!
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